Our View: Continuing the conversation on race in Iowa City

10:18 AM,
Sep. 4, 2012

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Press-Citizen Editorial Board
| Our View

Earlier this year, several public events surrounding Sean Christopher Lewis' play "Mayberry" provided area audiences with some needed opportunities to discuss and to confront the complicated ways race and class intersect in Iowa City.

The play - a joint production of Hancher and Working Group Theatre - was the product of Lewis' nearly two years of research about Iowa City's growing black population and its impact on what he calls a "relatively small, overwhelmingly white, well-educated and culturally engaged college town ... that prides itself on its acceptance of diversity."